About the day » Friday December 6, 1867Calender converter

• Simon Nicolaas Zijlmans, Raamsdonkveer
• Aaltje Hendriks Nijmeijer, Hoogeveen († 1920)
• Aaltje Hendriks Niemeijer, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1920)
• Adriaan in 't Veld, Drongelen († 1874)
• Adriana Vugts, Hedikhuizen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1887)
• Adriana Henneken, Zegwaart († 1894)
• Aaltje MEIJER, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Netherlands († 1886)
• Aaltje Niemeijer, Noord (gem. Hoogeveen)
• Adriana Cornelia LOOS, Essen Belgie († 1943)
• Adriaan (Engellus) Frederik Halewijn, Japara, Ned. Indie

• Anna Maria JOCHUM (117), Proctor, Marshall Co., WV
• Aaltien Hunderman (82), Coevorden
• Andries van de Waal (0), Tiel
• Adriaan den Boer (3), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Groenendijk (0), Rhoon, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan den Boer (3), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Aldegonde Keulders (60), Neeritter
• Aleida Liet (46)
• Anna Catharina Claes (71), Aalst-bij-Sint-Truiden, België
• Anna Maria van Duijsen (11), leeuwarden

• 1853 » Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic († 1937)
• 1853 » Haraprasad Shastri, Indian historian and scholar († 1931)
• 1863 » Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer († 1914)
• 1872 » Arthur Henry Adams, Australian journalist and author († 1936)
• 1872 » William S. Hart, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1875 » Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot († 1946)
• 1875 » Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author († 1941)
• 1876 » Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company († 1932)
• 1878 » Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Mexican politician († 1968)
• 1882 » Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer († 1954)

• 1855 » William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
• 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
• May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
• November 3 » Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
• November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.

The temperature on December 6, 1867 was about 0.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.